D.C. Fontana helped shape many aspects of Star Trek.
Summary Screenwriter and story editor Dorothy "D.C." Fontana wrote or co-wrote ten episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series and her Star Trek legacy cannot be overstated. Aside from creator Gene Roddenberry, very few writers had as much influence on Star Trek as D.C. Fontana. Dorothy went from being Roddenberry's secretary to one of the few women writers working in Hollywood at the time, and Fontana eventually became one of the youngest story editors in television.
At the end of Star Trek's "The Way to Eden," Sevrin and his followers steal a shuttlecraft and travel to Eden, only to find the planet to be dangerous. Although the planet looks beautiful, the plants secrete powerful acids and grow poisonous fruit. D.C. Fontana is credited under the pseudonym Michael Richards, as she was unhappy with the many changes made to the script. Her original teleplay, entitled "Joanna," featured the daughter of Dr. Leonard McCoy .
Related Every Klingon Appearance In Star Trek: TOS The Klingons became the most famous Star Trek alien villains despite only appearing in seven episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. 6 "Charlie X" Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 2 Close Based on one of Gene Roddenberry's original pitches for Star Trek as a series, "Charlie X" follows an unstable 17-year-old boy with extraordinary powers. The USS Enterprise picks up Charlie Evans , a teenage boy who had survived alone on the planet Thasus after his ship crashed there years before. With no knowledge of social interactions, Charlie quickly gets under the skin of the Enterprise crew.
Having failed to replicate his earlier successes and now having caused unnecessary deaths, Daystrom begins suffering a psychotic break. Captain Kirk eventually talks the M-5 system into disabling itself, saving the Enterprise from destruction. Laurence N. Wolfe's initial concept focused even more on Daystrom and his computer, and D.C. Fontana did heavy rewrites to shift the focus more to Kirk and the Enterprise.
Captain Kirk realizes negative emotions counteract the spores, and he uses this theory to free Spock and the rest of the colonists from their influence. The colonists then agree to be evacuated to a new planet, and Spock laments that he felt true happiness for the first time in his life. It was D.C. Fontana's rewrite of "This Side of Paradise" that landed her a role as story editor in September 1966.
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